Victoria Falls just got served Today I’ve marked visiting the last of the world’s 3 greatest waterfalls: In April 2014 we violated international law crossing Iguazú Falls (the world’s largest waterfalls system) along the intersection of...

Puerto Rico just got served After a day in Vieques and Fajardo, it was time to explore the heart of Puerto Rico’s capital city, Old San Juan. From our hostel, Posada San Francisco, I started with this gorgeous view of Plaza Colón from our 5th floor open...

Stalin’s birthplace just got served. After a 2-3 hour walking tour of Tbilisi at dawn, I hopped in my 9am car to Gori and the South Ossetian border. South Ossetia is infamous for being the Russian-leaning autonomous region that declared...

This story has a happy ending. Sometimes, all the planning in the world can’t stop travel from being…travel. We’ve acquired visas to places like Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. We’ve defied countless odds in moving hundreds of our monsooners to...

Ambrose Chu The following is a guest post by twice monsooner Ambrose Chu, who graciously asked if he could contribute to the Monsoon Diaries adventures. Ambrose first discovered us when googling how to obtain a tourist visa for Iran. He reached out...

What to do when you get 4.5 days off from work? You can either do your laundry — or, watch a sunset in Santorini. Santorini just got served Having gotten 4 and a half days scheduled off of work after a string of overnight...